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Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted?
    #17016770 - 10/12/12 05:32 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

I recently ordered psilocybe spores from Lil Shop.
I live in a US state where spores are legal.
I chose to pay by mail, included the order form, and sent cash.
My envelope was printed from my printer using the address copy/pasted from the order form.
As in the days of PF, I wrapped my cash in aluminum foil so it would be harder to see through the envelope.

For two weeks after I sent the email, my order status was "ON HOLD".
Then suddenly this week, it changed to "CANCELLED".
I assume that my order was never received so they canned it.

SO, my question is: how likely is it that my order was intercepted by some kind of authority?
Does the aluminum foil trigger some kind of alarm at the post office now, post 9/11?
How frequent is it for cash orders to be pocketed at the supplier rather than honored?
Is there any chance I can expect a knock on the door?

I'm not really freaking out about this, but I'd like to know if I should start circling the wagons on my end. Thanks for any insight you can provide.

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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: jack5]
    #17016772 - 10/12/12 05:34 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

your fucked bro


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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: Shroomopotamus]
    #17016779 - 10/12/12 05:38 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

I'm not worried, I've done nothing illegal.
But if there was a chance that someone might come knocking, I might take certain precautions.

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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: jack5]
    #17016791 - 10/12/12 05:42 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

contact your vendor & be like
"what the fuck"
he will probably be like
shit my bad
heres double the amount you wanted


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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: Shroomopotamus]
    #17016809 - 10/12/12 05:49 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

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Shroomopotamus said:
contact your vendor & be like





Thanks, I appreciate the advice. I'll probably do that.
But my main concern isn't the loss of the order,  but the idea that if they didn't receive it, someone else did, and whether that someone might be in authority to make my life more difficult.

My first thoughts are that someone working at the supplier may have just pocketed the cash - but how could they stay in business if that happened regularly?

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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: jack5] * 1
    #17016821 - 10/12/12 05:53 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

cops aint gonna intercept money in the mail but its possible a douche bag in the post office would
but that would be for his own benefit,  not to get you atrested

its also possible your vendor was paranoid to open up a piece of foil mailed to him


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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: Shroomopotamus]
    #17016827 - 10/12/12 05:55 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Shroomopotamus said:
its also possible your vendor was paranoid to open up a piece of foil mailed to him




That's an interesting thought I hadn't considered. It was just folded in half, just enough to cover the bill, but who knows....

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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: jack5] * 2
    #17016829 - 10/12/12 05:56 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

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jack5 said:
I wrapped my cash in aluminum foil so it would be harder to see through the envelope.




You could have just gotten a birthday card or construction paper or something.


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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: jack5]
    #17016837 - 10/12/12 05:58 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

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jack5 said:
Quote:

Shroomopotamus said:
its also possible your vendor was paranoid to open up a piece of foil mailed to him




That's an interesting thought I hadn't considered. It was just folded in half, just enough to cover the bill, but who knows....





with aluminum foil it's likely the cash was intercepted by a postal employee, it actually happens a lot

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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #17016844 - 10/12/12 06:00 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

I was thinking, because he used aluminum foil, someone might have thought the envelope had acid in it so they took it.


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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #17016890 - 10/12/12 06:13 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

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with aluminum foil it's likely the cash was intercepted by a postal employee, it actually happens a lot




Are you suggesting this would be an official intercept, or an opportunity for some dude to pocket the cash? If it were an official intercept, wouldn't they have to forward the money back to the company? This is the kind of thing I was wondering about - my order somehow triggering a bureaucracy that ends up allowing the authorities to hassle me.

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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: jack5]
    #17017014 - 10/12/12 07:05 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

jack5 said:
Quote:

Prisoner#1 said:
with aluminum foil it's likely the cash was intercepted by a postal employee, it actually happens a lot




Are you suggesting this would be an official intercept, or an opportunity for some dude to pocket the cash? If it were an official intercept, wouldn't they have to forward the money back to the company? This is the kind of thing I was wondering about - my order somehow triggering a bureaucracy that ends up allowing the authorities to hassle me.





no, I'm saying that the post office has a lot of thieves working for them and
after some time they learn how to identify mail that's most likely to contain
cash or other items of value. the foil in this instance was most likely the
giveaway. a money order or something would have been much safer as would
adding several pages of printed material and making the envelope look like
a simple letter or other corespondence

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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #17017056 - 10/12/12 07:25 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)



Here they come OP


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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: Nifflerz]
    #17017196 - 10/12/12 08:10 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Sending cash is always a risk, there are postal employees who steal and an untrustworthy recipient can also receive it and claim they didn't. Sending by a method with delivery confirmation would mean you were less in the dark about what happened. Foil is not something I would think of using to wrap cash in for mailing, why not some paper or a piece of card?

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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: jack5]
    #17017284 - 10/12/12 08:40 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

First thing you need to do is contact your supplier see what they say then maybe get paranoid. But I'd say pris is most likely correct.


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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: Mysteryvalley]
    #17017294 - 10/12/12 08:43 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

You sent CASH?

lmfao!


For all you know the "company" did receive the cash and is fucking you over.


This is why you never send cash in the mail and if you do at least have it certified.


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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: jack5]
    #17017309 - 10/12/12 08:49 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Thanks for the advice all. I've contacted the supplier, but I have little hope that they can be of help. I'm a big boy and know the risk of putting cash in the mail.

As far as wrapping it in foil, back in the day, that is how the Fanaticus website recommended sending cash payments, so I was working on autopilot there. I can see that times have changed, and maybe there are better ways to manage the delivery nowdays. I appreciate the suggestions.

I'm not really paranoid. Most likely I think the cash is in some guy's wallet and my order is in the trash bin. But I wanted to get an idea of how common this issue is, and how likely that instead of flying under the radar, I would instead be involved in some form of bureaucracy or investigation. If that were likely, of course I'd like to be forewarned so that I can be prepared.

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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: jack5]
    #17017371 - 10/12/12 09:08 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Wait a minute, do places like that even accept cash? I mean they might have "accepted it" under the table (lol), but most online transactions are credit/debit/pay pal etc.


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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: Nifflerz]
    #17017407 - 10/12/12 09:17 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Niffla said:
Wait a minute, do places like that even accept cash? I mean they might have "accepted it" under the table (lol), but most online transactions are credit/debit/pay pal etc.



I paid cash for my spores online once upon a time
all went well for me


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Re: Ordered spores, sent cash, never arrived - cops intercepted? [Re: Nifflerz]
    #17017415 - 10/12/12 09:18 AM (11 years, 5 months ago)

well this sucks. ive just sent out 8 dollars total in the mail. i hope i get my stuff, and i hope the person i was supposed to get that 2 bucks to gets their money. shit.
i did wrap in paper though. but they might well see through that


EDIT: so how do you guys send spore prints then? what if an employee fucking opens that shit up?

Edited by StateOfMind404 (10/12/12 09:19 AM)

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